[csaa-forum] FW: Postgraduate Studies at CCR

[Elaine Lally]

HDR Info Session - Thursday 11 October at 5:00pm 

Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney     

 

The Centre for Cultural Research (CCR) is holding a HDR Information
Session on Thursday 11 October 2007, from 5:00pm in Building EM,
Parramatta Campus, University of Western Sydney.

 

The Centre for Cultural Research provides a vibrant research environment
for postgraduate students. We provide significant research training and
support to our HDR candidates through:

 

* First year workshops concentrating on introduction to research studies
and confirmation of candidature and ethics application processes,

* Access to facilities including postgraduate work areas, office
equipment, media research facilities, and editing suites,

* Workshops, master-classes and seminars presented by world renowned
academics and researchers,

* A network of other HDR students.

 

If you are interested in applying for HDR studies, please view the CCR
http://www.uws.edu.au/ccr for further information on the types of
research that is currently being undertaken in the Centre and the
backgrounds of our members. For a brief overview of CCR's framing
contexts, please see the end of this email. You might find that the
Centre's work compliments the study that you are currently undertaking,
or we are doing research in an area that you wish to pursue.

 

Please contact Associate Professor Brett Neilson on 02 96859600 or by
email at ccr at uws.edu.au

 

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Framing Contexts

The Centre for Cultural Research (CCR) explores the cultural challenges
and opportunities of a world that is increasingly globalised, diverse
and technologically mediated.  It especially emphasises collaboration -
researching with communities and organisations, solving problems, and
generating new knowledge in particular contexts. 

 

CCR researchers approach culture as a vital dimension of social,
political and economic life.  Their practice-oriented, interdisciplinary
research produces the leading-edge academic work for which CCR is
nationally and internationally recognised.

 

CCR seeks to build the cultural intelligence needed for a complex and
changing world, researching cultural diversity and complexity in the
contexts of:

 

*	Communities: intercultural and intercommunal relations, global
movements, transnational experiences, and diasporic identities; 
*	Environments: the construction and interaction of natural and
human worlds, the politics of sustainability, and social and cultural
dimensions of new technologies. 
*	Media: the role and power of contemporary communications and
forms of representation, and new modes of citizenship in a mediated
public sphere; 
*	Institutions: governance, policy and practice, especially in
cultural and creative organisations, and emerging forms of cultural
labour and economy; 
*	Cities: local-global relations in urban environments, cultural
planning and development, and the social and political dynamics of
everyday life; 

These themes are neither comprehensive nor mutually exclusive in mapping
CCR's research activities, but provide useful framing contexts for the
Centre's work.

 
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